Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[Weezer]

McKee seems to think he’s a long shot since everyone and LSU is after him as well. Billy Amick is a battle with Florida and USCe

 

[clt_tiger]

I hate to say it, but I think we run up 5-10x this amount if last year's team went to Omaha.



Nobody was beating LSU because they are LSU and because they wanted to show-up Ole Miss. And now nobody will beat them because that's a ridiculous amount of jello shots

in our defense, the song doesn't talk about people coming to rocky top for jello shots...

There is a correlation to how smart the fan base is to how little Jell-O shots were consumed.

 

[Glitch]

Making sausage crumbles to go with scrambled eggs, a little cheese, and some salsa for my breakfast. Yum!

 

[Weezer]

@Christian Lowe

Has that baby been keeping you up all night? Is that why you've been so negative lately?

 

[TheRain]

 

[MarcoVol]

T motha fudgin V

 

[Christian Lowe]

@Christian Lowe

Has that baby been keeping you up all night? Is that why you've been so negative lately?

 

[SugarCC]

If we're not meant to eat pork, why does bacon taste like heaven?

"A sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know, cause I'd never eat the filthy motherfker."

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

Huge F’n pickup for TN. Now let’s get the Bama Pitcher

 

[pierce60]

So the Transfer Portal is a good thing now, right???

 

[ChattaTNVol]

An Elite Defense –

If we can cut 5 points per game on average off of our defensive scoring from 2022 we would qualify as an elite defense, i.e., a top 10 scoring defense in the national FBS rankings.

The total number of points we’re looking for is 5 ppg X 13 games = 65 points. We gave up 296 points in all for 2022 and we need to see how we can reduce that to 231.

There were 4 SEC teams that shut out their FCS opponent in 2022, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas A&M. In 2021 there were 3 SEC teams that shut out their FCS opponent, Tennessee, Auburn, and South Carolina. In 2019 there were 5 teams that shut out their FCS opponent, Tennessee, Florida, Auburn, Missouri, and Vanderbilt. In 2018 Georgia and LSU both shut out their FCS opponent. In 2022 we gave up 24 points to FCS Tennessee-Martin. So 296 – 24 = 272.

South Carolina’s offensive scoring average against their 7 SEC opponents not named Tennessee (@ AR, UGA, @ UK, A&M, MO, @ VU, @ UF) was fractionally less than 21 points per game. We gave them 42 more points than their SEC average. So 272 – 42 = 230.

There you go. An elite defense. We had it all along and just didn’t cash in. jmo.

The thing is a top 10 scoring defense changes the narrative about our defense and may make it even more attractive to elite prospects we are trying to recruit. jmo.

These are my unit and game grades for 2022 based on points per possession by each team. Based on net points per possession we finished 3rd in the nation behind Georgia and Michigan and ahead of Ohio State and Alabama, in that order, i.e. even with our couple of shortcomings we were arguably still the 3rd best team in the nation in 2022. jmo.



Our defense on the whole improved significantly last year and now we really don’t have that far to go to enter the elite ranks on that side of the ball. jmo.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

So the Transfer Portal is a good thing now, right???

You know the rules of when it's good and bad. . .

 

[Orangeburst]

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your skills are slipping

 

[JCVol00]

Watching the replay for the Battle at Bristol, Rece Davis filled in for Chris Fowler as the play by play announcer, and he honestly killed it, im surprised he doesnt do more play by play stuff

 

[MarcoVol]

Poor NC State, man.

Tommy Tanks bolts after a crazy Fr year and now another stud Fr leaves for greener pastures haha damn

 

[MarcoVol]

So the Transfer Portal is a good thing now, right???

I love the portal. Adds so much more intrigue to college sports

 

[drvenner]

Did we just switch to Riddell helmets or am I a morron

Yes

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Poor NC State, man.

Tommy Tanks bolts after a crazy Fr year and now another stud Fr leaves for greener pastures haha damn

2-3 players like that who stick around could be a huge difference. Hopefully we keep most of ours and add everyone else's too,

 

[MarcoVol]

Watching the replay for the Battle at Bristol, Rece Davis filled in for Chris Fowler as the play by play announcer, and he honestly killed it, im surprised he doesnt do more play by play stuff

He got the job he wanted

 

[TheMookieMonster]

@Christian Lowe

Has that baby been keeping you up all night? Is that why you've been so negative lately?

Lately???

 

[VolNash17]

Watching the replay for the Battle at Bristol, Rece Davis filled in for Chris Fowler as the play by play announcer, and he honestly killed it, im surprised he doesnt do more play by play stuff

He used to do a lot more IIRC. Always does a good job IMO

 

[cdr4ut]

But can he throw out runners trying to steal 2nd.

 

[Cosmo Kramer]

It really is crazy how much Tony Vols has made TN fans care about Baseball. 2019 I couldn’t name 1 damn player. Also ESPN Plus has changed everything being able to watch every game. We are putting almost $100 Million into Baseball Facilities. If you told me that was going to happen in 2019 I would have said you have lost your damn mind.

 

[clt_tiger]

An Elite Defense –

If we can cut 5 points per game on average off of our defensive scoring from 2022 we would qualify as an elite defense, i.e., a top 10 scoring defense in the national FBS rankings.

The total number of points we’re looking for is 5 ppg X 13 games = 65 points. We gave up 296 points in all for 2022 and we need to see how we can reduce that to 231.

There were 4 SEC teams that shut out their FCS opponent in 2022, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas A&M. In 2021 there were 3 SEC teams that shut out their FCS opponent, Tennessee, Auburn, and South Carolina. In 2019 there were 5 teams that shut out their FCS opponent, Tennessee, Florida, Auburn, Missouri, and Vanderbilt. In 2018 Georgia and LSU both shut out their FCS opponent. In 2022 we gave up 24 points to FCS Tennessee-Martin. So 296 – 24 = 272.

South Carolina’s offensive scoring average against their 7 SEC opponents not named Tennessee (@ AR, UGA, @ UK, A&M, MO, @ VU, @ UF) was fractionally less than 21 points per game. We gave them 42 more points than their SEC average. So 272 – 42 = 230.

There you go. An elite defense. We had it all along and just didn’t cash in. jmo.

The thing is a top 10 scoring defense changes the narrative about our defense and may make it even more attractive to elite prospects we are trying to recruit. jmo.

These are my unit and game grades for 2022 based on points per possession by each team. Based on net points per possession we finished 3rd in the nation behind Georgia and Michigan and ahead of Ohio State and Alabama, in that order, i.e. even with our couple of shortcomings we were arguably still the 3rd best team in the nation in 2022. jmo.

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Our defense on the whole improved significantly last year and now we really don’t have that far to go to enter the elite ranks on that side of the ball. jmo.

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Exhibit B about us not doing as many Jell-O shots in Omaha. We are smarter than the majority of schools there. Stanford and Virginia are the only schools that did less shots.

 

[drvenner]

BOOM!!!